ward, the ploughman, the keeper, and the Irish-woman, all ran up the park, shouting Stop thief, in A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 31 the belief that Tom had at least a thousand poundsworth of jewels in his empty pockets ; and the verymagpies and jays followed Tom up, screaking andscreaming, as if he… … lather gorilla therein to take his part—to scratch outthe gardeners inside with one paw, toss the dairymaidinto a tree with another, and wrench off Sir Johns headwith a third, while he cracked the keepers skull withhis teeth as easily as if it had been a cocoa-nut or apaving-stone. However, Tom did…
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